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[Manne Merak <mannemerak@xxxxxxxxx>]

nordi wrote:
> Manne Merak wrote:
>   
> > On this, how do you people backup your photos?
> >     
> > The second is difficult unless you just dump the whole lot every time -
> > but these dirs get BIG.
> >     
>
> Just use rsync. I have switched from a hand-written backup script to
> rsync, and it is simply 1000 times better (conservative estimate). All
> you need is
>
> #!/bin/bash
> tobackup="/home/manne/pictures"          # no trailing slash
> storage="/media/your_usbdisk/pic_backup"
> nice ionice -n7 rsync -av --delete -HAX "$tobackup" "$storage"
>
> A script like this does a backup of my homedir in <1 minute after the
> initial run.
>
> Regards
> nordi
>
>   
Thanks, ok, almost there.  How do I only get the diff files?
The issue is I dont want to re-backup the old photos, just the ones
after a specific date.

Manne
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